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Quotes About Understanding

When truly brothers, men don't sing in unison, but in harmony.
~ W.H. Auden
You shall love your crooked neighbour with your crooked heart.
~ W.H. Auden
What I remember I cannot tell though it is there in all that I say
~ W.S. Merwin
Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.
~ W.S. Merwin
where will the meanings be when the words are forgotten will I see again where you are
~ W.S. Merwin
Traveling Together" If we are separated, I will try to wait for you on your side of things your side of the wall and the water and of the light moving at its own speed even on leaves that we have seen I will wait on one side while a side is there
~ W.S. Merwin
To remember Is not to rehearse, but to hear what never Has fallen silent.
~ W.S. Merwin
we know from the beginning that the darkness is beyond us there is no explaining the dark it is only the light that we keep feeling a need to account for
~ W.S. Merwin
I do not think I am fond, Father, Of the way in which always before he listens He prepares himself by listening. It is Unequal, Father, like the reason For which the wheel turns, though there is no wheel.
~ W.S. Merwin
I know how words are, how they go everywhere, one hint is enough. They talk of love, what do they know? We have the morsel and the knife.
~ W.S. Merwin
turning the pages patiently in search of meanings
~ W.S. Merwin
If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.
~ Rob Reiner
I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.
~ John Cleese
Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.
~ Tom Ellis
It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.
~ John Templeton
Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
~ Andy Rooney
If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.
~ William Deresiewicz
If you can figure out how you're feeling, then maybe you have a chance of getting over it.
~ Taylor Swift
What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.
~ Edmond Jabes
I haven't had a chance to really view the pitches straight up.
~ Joe Maddon
I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.
~ Lenny Wilkens
But if you deem them worthy, people deserve a second chance.
~ RuPaul
The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
~ May Sarton
But if Christians don't get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?
~ N. T. Wright